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Protesting. >> you're right, you know what, if these protesters wearing three piece suits we'd probably respect them more and maybe took a shower and take a shower for three weeks, go down to southern and mant. >> dave:. >> brenda: jonas, they're not just protesting the big companies and the banks, this is not just about banks, not just about wall street and it's not in wall street, it's across the country, lately and some of it is backed by unions, certainly. but, it's based on small-- it's going after small businesses as well. >> it is, because it's going to encompass all kind of like far le...

Ohit was over. oh, my goodness. >> i think i broke m ankle. >> no problem. >> thank you to all of the brave men and women who served the wonderful country of ours and everyone who is here today for joining us and the wonderful got a great cake from great american cookies, thanks to the navy. >> brenda: happy holiday weekend, everybody. well, you know it better than anyone, we're getting grilled at the grill. from burgers to dogs, to chicken and stakes, the cost of a cookout jumping, get this, nearly 30% since last year. and prices on everything else, everywhere else, soaring, too. but the gove...

>> brenda: what about, gary, what about an alternative way call called-- >> that's one way and that sort of gets to the heart of it brenda, i don't even mind the you you know, kind of pay as you go thing tax, if you will, as long as it was they got rid of the gas tax, that's fine. the problem that i have with it, it's at the federal government level. the same federal government that brought you among other national highway projects, the big dig, 12 billion dollars over budget and 20 years late. that's the problem. that's, this all should be in the hands of the states and privatized. in fact, o...

Think we can agree on that, it's a start and a start that gave the companies confidence to hire new people in the first place. >> gary, do you say the government's not hiring, but the private sector is, but all of this came at a very, very pretty penny? >> yeah, a couple of facts, brenda. one is that the unemployment rate is still higher than it was before all this one trillion dollars in stimulus was spent. and number two is, i think the value of each of the green jobs that was created, is well over a million dollars. i think if you go to recovery.gov, the cost per job created in total is wel...

Poultry, a big portion of america's poultry production has been done in that neck of the woods, in that area and it may have been wiped out, and the bottom line, it's america and we're cutting together when we attract these and we will, and from a very, very, i don't know, strange place, the industry, there's a lot of expression that needs to be done in that area, but i'll disagree, and the reason for grow growth. >> and our hearts and prayers of course ever with all the people who lost their lives and lost their homes, but there is a larger issue here, gary. >> well, you know, i think the lar...